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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
IFFI 52 announces winners of ‘75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow’
Youngest Talent chosen is 16-year-old from Bihar, informs I&B Minister
“75 Creative Minds includes many from various small towns and cities of India”
Panaji, 20 November 2021
The glory of India’s freedom movement rests on the strong minds and hearts of our freedom fighters. As the country is celebrating the 75th year of its hard-earned freedom with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav flags swaying in in every state of the country, 75 young aspiring film makers and film artists have been handpicked from across the country to participate in the 52nd International Film Festival of India 2021.
The budding cinematic talents have been chosen, thanks to “75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow”, a novel initiative and brainchild of Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Anurag Thakur. Under this competition, IFFI 52 is providing a platform for tomorrow’s leaders in the film industry, to showcase their talent at a world-renowned international event. The competition is an endeavour to encourage and recognise young creative minds and budding talent in the country.
The 75 youngsters comprising 7 female and 68 male artists, all below 35 years of age, have been chosen based on their exquisite skills in different fields of film making including direction, editing, singing and screenplay, among others. The youngsters have been invited as special guests at the 52nd IFFI, providing them a great platform to explore their creativity.
Speaking about the novel initiative, the Minister said: “For the first time ever, we are recognizing and mentoring promising 75 young minds, as we celebrate 75 years of India’s independence. They have been chosen by the grand jury and selection jury after a meticulous selection process.”
The Minister informed that the youngest candidate is just sixteen years old, the 16-year-old Aryan Kumar from Bihar who has been chosen for his skills in Film Direction.
The Minister informed that the list of 75 budding artists includes many who have been selected from various small towns and cities of India. They have come to IFFI, from 23 States/UTs of India, including five from the North Eastern States of Assam and Manipur and one from the J&K.
All 75 young talents are from various states of India, including Andhra Pradesh , Assam , Bihar , Chattisgarh , Delhi , Goa , Jammu & Kashmir , Gujarat , Haryana , Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Kerala , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra , Manipur , Punjab , Rajasthan , Tamil Nadu , Telangana , Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand  and West Bengal .
The 75 creative minds will get to interact with the many renowned film makers and artists at IFFI. They will get a unique opportunity to connect with industry experts and attend Masterclasses.
The complete list of winners can be found here.
Registered IFFI Media delegates or other media colleagues desirous of interviewing the winners may send an email request to iffi-pib[at]nic[dot]in for the contact details of the winner.
Details of the chosen 75 creative minds across the country:
The details of the competition can be found here.
Prime Minister's Office
PM to attend Annual DGP Conference at BSF Academy in Tekanpur
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will attend the Annual Conference of DGPs and IGPs on 7th and 8th January at the BSF Academy at Tekanpur, Madhya Pradesh.
DGPs Conference is an annual event in which top police officers from all over the country share and discuss security related issues. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed the conference earlier in Guwahati, Assam in 2014, Dhordo, Rann of Kutch, Gujarat in 2015 and National Police Academy, Hyderabad in 2016.
During the last meeting, issues such as cross-border terrorism and radicalization were discussed in detail. The Prime Minister emphasized the importance of leadership, soft skills and collective training. He specifically mentioned the importance of technology and human interface for the police force.
Holding the Annual DGP Conference outside the national capital, is in line with Prime Minister's vision that such conferences should be held across the country, and not just confined to Delhi.
Ministry of Jal Shakti
Shallowing of Yamuna River
Lower Yamuna Division, Central Water Commission  monitors the hydrological observations including cross-section of river Yamuna in Agra . As per available data, no significant change in the Yamuna river bed has been observed in last 5 years.
U.P. Pollution Control Board  monitors the water quality of river Yamuna in Agra city at 5 places including upstream  of Agra city  and downstream  of Agra city . As per latest water quality report of December 2020, Biological Oxygen Demand  of river Yamuna at U/S is 12mg/lit and at D/S is 16.8 mg/lit.
Further, Water Quality of Yamuna River is being regularly monitored at Poiyaghat Station. Agra under Lower Yamuna Division, Central Water Commission. The Dissolved Oxygen and Biological Oxygen Demand  data have been plotted for last 5 years and no conclusive pattern of changes has been observed at Poiyaghat Station, Agra.
National Mission for Clean Ganga  has sanctioned a project “Agra Sewerage Scheme  and construction of 10 Decentralized STPs” for creation of additional 178.60 MLD STP capacity at the estimated cost of Rs. 842.25 crore to cater to the sewage treatment demand till the year 2035.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti & Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Rattan Lal Kataria in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Finance
‘HEALTH AND EDUCATION CESS’ NOT ALLOWED AS BUSINESS EXPENDITURE
HEALTH AND EDUCATION CESS IS IMPOSED AS AN ADDITIONAL SURCHARGE ON THE TAXPAYER FOR FUNDING SPECIFIC GOVERNMENT WELFARE PROGRAMMES
‘Health and Education Cess’ is not allowed as business expenditure. This was clarified by Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of Finance while presenting the Union Budget in the Parliament today.
The Union Finance Minister stated that the income-tax is not an allowable expenditure for computation of business income. This includes tax as well as surcharges.
The ‘Health and Education Cess’ is imposed as an additional surcharge on the taxpayer for funding specific government welfare programs, she explained. Noting that some courts have allowed ‘Health and Education Cess’ as business expenditure, which is against the legislative intent, the Union Finance Minister reiterated that any surcharge or cess on income and profits is not allowable as business expenditure.
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
e-Governance of Panchayats
Under Digital India Programme, Ministry is implementing e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project, in the country to revamp the functioning of Panchayats and to make them more transparent, accountable and effective. Ministry launched eGramSwaraj a simplified work-based Accounting application to addresses various aspects of Panchayat functioning viz. planning, accounting, budgeting including online payments through eGramSwaraj-PFMS Interface for services delivered. Currently, 2,58,694 Panchayati Raj Institutions have prepared Panchayat Development Plans for Financial Year 2021-22 and 2,75,252 Panchayati Raj Institutions have adopted eGramSwaraj for the purpose of accounting. Further, 2,53,523Panchayati Raj Institutions have on boarded eGramSwaraj-PFMS Interface for carrying out online transactions.
No direct financial assistant is provided to States / UTs for implementation of e-governance in the Panchayats under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project. Ministry of Panchayati Raj  has been providing programmatic support for strengthening of Panchayati Raj Institutions  and capacity building of Elected Representatives and functionaries of PRIs to improve their functioning and effectiveness and make them self-reliant.
Panchayat being a State subject, providing basic infrastructure facilities including computers, electric power supply etc. is primarily the responsibility of concerned State Government / UT Administration for proper working of e-governance of panchayats.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Culture
Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 makes it to the Guinness World Records
Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 has been placed in the Guinness World Records in three sectors. It includes largest traffic and crowd management plan, the biggest painting exercise of public sites under paint my city scheme and biggest sanitation and waste disposal mechanism. A three member team from Guinness World Records visited the Prayagraj for this purpose. Exercise at large scale were done before the team members for three days from February 28 to March 3. Around 503 shuttle buses were pressed into service in one go for the team on February 28 on the highway. Several people participated in painting exercise on March 1 and 10 thousand workers engaged in cleaning at Prayagraj Kumbh performing their duties all together.
Only a single bathing festival of Mahashivratri of the six main bathing festivals remains. Five bathing festivals of the Kumbh have concluded successfully with more than 22 crore pilgrims taking a holy dip.
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Ministry of Education
A total of 170426 schools receive approval for self defence training for girl students  during last 3 years
The Government has been promoting self defence training to girls under the erstwhile centrally sponsored scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan . Self-defence training is imparted to enhance safety and security of girls inside and outside of the school and to inculcate confidence amongst girls to deal with any emergency situation.
The Central Government has launched an integrated scheme, for school education named as Samagra Shiksha w.e.f 2018-19, which subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored schemes of school education i.e Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan , Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan  and Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education . Under Samagra Shiksha scheme there is provision for self defence training for Girls @ Rs. 9000 per school for schools having girls students in classes VI to XII.
The number of schools where self defence training for girl students of classes IX to XII has been approved during the last three years is given below.
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Amount approved

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2015-16
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49517
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4062.02
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2016-17
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57500
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4880.75
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2017-18
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63409
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5580.81
This information was given by the Minister of State , Shri Upendra Kushwaha today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.
UPSC
UPSC denies rumours doing rounds in social media about sabotage in the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner  Examination conducted by the Commission on 2nd July, 2023
UPSC says, the merit positions of qualified and unqualified candidates at every level are in order and as per the performance of examinees
Rumours are doing rounds in social media about sabotage in the Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner  Examination conducted by the Commission on 2nd July, 2023. Few images of portion of question papers have been uploaded on different social media portals after the conduct of examination. By then, lakhs of question papers were in the hands of all those examinees who appeared in the examination and the Commission had also uploaded question paper on the website. Therefore, such inputs are neither credible nor actionable on the part of the Commission.
Nevertheless, the Commission noted this event and did a complete scrutiny of the processes & checks of the examination in all the centres across the country. Nothing worthy of suspicion was found. Also, as a matter of abundant caution, it analysed the data of the result of the examination at all levels of the merit list to find any unusual trend. It was clearly observed that the merit positions of qualified and unqualified candidates at every level are in order and as per the performance of examinees.
As regards to more candidates getting qualified from some centres, it is stated that in open competitions this is not unusual. No two examinations can be compared on pro-rata basis and even the same examination in different years throw different data.
On the basis of a detailed and thorough analysis of events and data, the Commission is of the firm view that rumours doing rounds in social media are baseless and devoid of merit.
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Ministry of Communications
37th All India Postal Table Tennis tournament of India Post to be held in Kolkata from November 17
Kolkata; November 16, 2021
West Bengal Circle Postal Sports Board is organizing 37th All India Postal Table Tennis Tournament from November 17 to 21, 2021 at Sports Authority of India , Netaji Subhash Eastern Centre, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106.
Shri Pushilal, formal National Coach of Table Tennis will be present as Chief Guest in the inaugural ceremony. The inaugural ceremony is scheduled to be held at 10 am on 17th November, 2021 at the CRPF Ground of SAI complex, Salt Lake. Arjuna awardee and famous tennis player, Smt. Poulomi Ghatak will also attend the inaugural session as special guest. Ms. J. Charukesi, Chief Postmaster General, West Bengal Circle and president West Bengal Circle, Postal Sports Board will also be present at the inaugural session.
19 teams of different Postal circles including the host circle with 163 players including 120 men and 43 women will take part in the tournament. Matches under the categories of Men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles, veteran men’s singles, veteran women’s singles, men’s team and women’s teams will be played.
Shri Ashok Kumar Poddar, Addl. Director General , Postal Service Board, New Delhi will grace the closing ceremony as chief guest. Padmashree awardee and eminent tennis player Smt. Mouma Das will also attend the closing ceremony as guest of honour. Ms. J. Charukesi, Chief Postmaster General, West Bengal Circle along with Shri Ashok Kumar Poddar and Smt. Mouma Das will distribute trophies and medals to the winners.
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping  Portal
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employees Employer Mapping  portal, which acts as a directory of skilled workforce. The objective is to provide a platform that matches supply of skilled workforce with the market demand, thereby facilitating better livelihood opportunities for youth and availability of ready skilled manpower to employers. ASEEM portal is being managed by National Skill Development Corporation  under the aegis of Ministry. As on 16.07.2021, 1.3 crore candidates have been registered on ASEEM portal which includes directly registered candidates and the candidates registered on Skill India Portal .
The ASEEM Portal is to provide a platform that matches supply of skilled workforce with the market demand, thereby facilitating better livelihood opportunities for youth including migrants and availability of ready skilled manpower to employers. At present, there is around 10 lakh migrant’s data/profile are available on ASEEM.
ASEEM as such consists of three IT based AI  driven interfaces for stakeholder interactions:
- A job application for individuals with access to hyper local jobs using machine learning and automated match based on persona.
- A demand and campaign management system for employers to forecast the current and future demand.
- A management dashboard for analytics and insights. This could also be used for future decision making.
To maintain data sanity and data security all data is maintained on NSDC owned and managed servers. Additionally, users are only provided access to the system post validating the details provided by the user at the time of registration.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Defence
OPERATION THIRUVALLUR: INDIAN ARMY'S MASSIVE EFFORT TO ENSURE AND ENHANCE SECURITY OF CITIZENS
Troops of Southern Command, Pune have launched “Operation Thiruvallur” in continuance of their efforts to contribute directly towards security and well being of people. “Operation Thiruvallur” is being undertaken under the aegis of “Aid to Civil Authorities”, involving the safe disposal of nearly 10 tonnes of unexploded ordnance which had possibly been collected inadvertently by some factories over a number of years located in the general area of SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Gummidipoondi in Thiruvallur district of TamilNadu. It is an intricate and complex effort involving many weeks of detailed planning and coordination with the civil authorities. The operation is a classic demonstration of joint coordination and planning undertaken between the Army and Tamil Nadu State Government, on whose request the operation has been specifically approved by Ministry of Defence. The aim of the operation is to ensure a safe environment for all citizens in and around Gummidipoondi.
The operation involves segregation & disposal of unexploded ordnance from a metal scrap dump, now covered with undergrowth. The dump had been unattended after a violent blast & consequent death of a factory worker a few years back. The overriding factor whilst planning and undertaking the operation has been safety. The operation is likely to continue for few days.MI/PK
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Prime Minister's Office
PM welcomes USA to International Solar Alliance
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi welcomed United States of America to International Solar Alliance. Shri Modi also thanked the US President Mr Joe Biden for the step.
In a reply to tweet by the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Mr John Kerry, the Prime Minister tweeted :
"Wonderful news @ClimateEnvoy! I thank @POTUS and wholeheartedly welcome the USA to the @isolaralliance. This will further strengthen the Alliance in our shared quest of harnessing solar energy for a sustainable planet."
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Pensioners participated enthusiastically in Digital Life Certificate campaign in Nagpur
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, is conducting the Digital Life Certificate- face authentication campaign
Nagpur, 11 November 2022
The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India has launched a nation-wide campaign for promotion of Digital Life Certificate through Face Authentication for Central Government pensioners. In this series a campaign was conducted at SBI, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Road, Kingsway, Nagpur branch for the Central Government pensioners on November 11, 2022. Digital Life Certificate- Face Authentication of the pensioners was done in this campaign. Deputy Secretary , Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Rameshchandra Sethi, Advisor of this Department Harjit Singh, Nodal Officer of SBI-Nagpur Subroto Mukherji gave the valuable guidance to the pensioners about this process during the campaign.
The pensioner participated enthusiastically in this campaign and expressed satisfaction and pleasure for introducing the new technology and the guidance given to them. These pensioners were guided by the Department officials how to download the Face Authentication Jeevan Pramaan App in their mobile phones and give Life Certificate from their phones. A link is sent on the mobile phone of the pensioner to download the Life certificate and it is generated within 60 seconds and it can be downloaded from the link.
The Face Authentication Technology was launched in by Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in November 2021. All the registered Pensioners Associations, Pension Disbursing Banks, Ministries of Government of India and CGHS wellness Centres have been directed to promote the Digital Life Certificate/Face Authentication Technique for giving Life Certificate by organizing special camps for ‘Ease of Living’ of pensioners.
Before the launching of this digital process the aged pensioners had to queue up for hours outside banks to give Life Certificate in physical form. But now, the same has been made possible at the click of a button from the comfort of their home.
In the process of submission of Life Certificate through Face Authentication by mobile, details regarding Aadhar Number, Mobile Number for OTP, PPO Number, Account Number with Bank/Post Office are required only for the first time. This facility is also available for State Government Employees and having Disbursing Authority as Treasury Office of the State. Representatives of Pensioners Association and State Bank of India, UIDI were also present on the occasion. The department is running the campaign throughout the month of November to submit the life certificate through face authentication.PIB Nagpur | S.Rai/D.Wankhede/S.Patil/D.Rane
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Ministry of Home Affairs
Intelligence at Border District
Section 139   of the BSF Act, 1968 empowers the Central Government to confer powers and duties on members of the force in respect of any Central Acts for the purposes specified therein. The extension of territorial jurisdiction of BSF would result in better and more effective control on trans-border crimes in conjunction and co-operation with the State Police.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai in a written reply to question in the Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
Ministries of MSME and Ayush Sign MoU for the Development of Ayush Enterprises
MoS MSME Giriraj Singh and MoS AYUSH Shripad Naik witnessing signing of MoU in New Delhi
Ministry of MSME and Ministry of AYUSH signed an MoU in the presence of the Ministers of AYUSH and MSME today in New Delhi. The MoU will create synergies through the institutions and schemes of both ministries for the development of AYUSH enterprises in the country. The objective of this partnership is to position India as a world leader in “Holistic Healthcare”.
AYUSH is a rising sector, having immense potential for preventive, curative and rehabilitative health and has been part of India's socio-cultural heritage. AYUSH industry include the Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy drug manufacturing units as well as the healthcare delivery centers in public & private sectors and are essentially dominated by MSMEs, which need handholding support in the areas of entrepreneurship development, capacity building and financial assistance in order to grow and increase the market share of AYUSH.
The domestic market for AYUSH sector has been increasing steadily over the past decade. There is also an acceptance of traditional medicines worldwide. Therefore, export of AYUSH products like food supplements, nutraceuticals and herbal extracts has increased significantly. In order to benefit from this the Ministries of MSME and AYUSH have agreed to join hands for developing enterprises in this sector. Both Ministries will organize regional workshops for entrepreneurship development in AYUSH sector and Ministry of MSME will frame new schemes for AYUSH industries to get the benefits of SIDBI.
Ministry of MSME cuts across different sectors of industry including AYUSH and thus has the responsibility to cater to the needs of AYUSH enterprises.